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Went to used bookstore before meeting my friend for lunch.

Bought:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
Steppenwolf - Hesse


feels good man

>> No.2764801

SICK story

>> No.2764809

Ever feel like Hesse is overrated? I do.

>> No.2764814

How much did you pay for A Portrait of the Artist?

>> No.2764815

sure is summer in here

>> No.2764825

>>2764809

No. Hesse is sublime.

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>>2764815

>> No.2764841

>>2764809
Siddartha is overrated. The rest goes from mediocre to good.

>> No.2764845

>>2764825
Hesse is a charlatan and transcendentalism is a load of horse-shit.

>> No.2764854

>>2764780

If you enjoy The Honorary Consul, you owe it to yourself to read The Quiet American, The Third Man, and The Confidential Agent.

>> No.2764855

>>2764845
>Hesse
>Transcendentalism

I don't think you know what Transcendentalism is. Thoreau, Whitman, and Emerson were Transcendentalists. Hesse was a coked-out hippy.

>> No.2764856

its a good job not everyone is retarded as OP and feels the need to post when they buy a new book

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>>2764854

I like Greene and have read the Power and the Glory, the Heart of the Matter, a Burnt-Out Case (1st 2 were assigned High School reading)
Read Joyce in High School
Read Hesse but never Steppenwolf

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>>2764856

>retarded as OP and feels the need to post when they buy a new book

it was a USED bookstore dumbass
please learn to read

>> No.2764881

>2012
>still buying paper books

>> No.2764882

>>2764845
we just had a half baked shit pile transcendentalism thread last night, that's our quota for the year so please cease referencing that shallow movement.

Also: Lol, Hesse as a Transcendentalist

>> No.2764884

>>2764809
I loved Steppenwolf when I was in high school. I later read part of Siddhartha, but I felt it was just a little too similar.

I've been meaning to read the Glass Bead Game and Demian.

>> No.2764891

This makes me want to re-read Our Man in Havana.